St. Luke Academy Chicago    Saint Luke Academy Chicago

CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

ACADEMIC COMPETITIONS - OUR WINNING WAYS

Saint Luke Academy students regularly participate in local, regional and national academic competitions with outstanding results.

WINNING HISTORY

Saint Luke Academy participates annually in the Metro Chicago and the All-Illinois History Competitions. Students produce history projects that are judged for historical knowledge, quality of analysis and depth of research. At the All-Illinois history fair, two entries in each of the four competitive categories advance to the national history competition.

In the past 16 years, 17 entries from Saint Luke have won the right to represent Illinois in the National History Day competition in Washington, D.C.

Four times Saint Luke students have placed in the TOP TEN in the Nation in the National History Day Competition.  One of our students took FIRST PLACE in the national competition with a video documentary. In the 2007 National contest, our student captured SEVENTH PLACE in the video documentary division.

WINNING SPELLING 

In two of the last 5 years, a Saint Luke Academy student won local and regional spelling bees to qualify as one of the Top Spellers in Chicagoland (city and suburban Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy/Kendall, Lake McHenry and Will counties). The top 40 spellers were invited to compete in the Chicago Tribune Spelling Bee for the right to advance to the National Spelling Bee.  In 2003 our student took 5th place in the region.

WINNING RESEARCH

A Saint Luke Academy student was awarded the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency’s Archival Research Award for the best use of archival sources in writing a paper entered in the All-Illinois History exposition.

WINNING WRITING

One of Saint Luke Academy’s students authored two articles published in the student history journal Illinois History and won the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency’s Ornsdorf Scholarship for best Lincoln-era research for an article published in the journal.

St. Luke Academy Chicago 2007

FIELD TRIPS

Saint Luke Academy encourages enrichment and application of academic studies through the hands-on/first-person experiences of field trips.  Classes visit sites appropriate to their age level and academic disciplines.  Typical trips include concerts, theater, galleries, historical sites, farms and museums.

Upper grade children are encouraged to make individual field trips to sites appropriate for collection of primary resources for their annual research paper/project.

SPORTS

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Saint Luke Academy offers an interscholastic athletic program for students in Grades 3 through 8.  Practice is after school, usually on the Saint Luke campus.  Games take place after school (home or away) against opponents in the Chicago Northside Lutheran School League.

Extracurricular sports include:  cross country, soccer, basketball, volleyball and softball.  The children also participate in the Lutheran School League bowling tournament in the fall and the Lutheran School League track meet in the spring.

Saint Luke Academy Girls Team captures 2nd place in the St. James Holiday Tournament!!

An introduction to our sports program is now available to our first and second grade students who are invited to join our cross country team.

AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

Geography Club is open to students in Grades 4-8.  Students engage in a variety of activities and participate in the annual Geography Bee.

Math Club is open to students in Grades 1-4.  Students participate in enrichment activities, games and puzzles appropriate to their achievement level in the subject.

History Fair gives students in Grades 6-8 experience in working on long-term academic projects after school hours.  Students are guided through in-depth primary source research and project development for entry in local regional and national levels of competition.  Students may work on research papers, performances, historical exhibits or decumentary videos.

Recorder ensembles offer students in Grades 5-8 the opportunity for instrumental instruction, ensemble practice and performance experience.  Students study and perform on soprano, alto, tenor and bass instruments.  Ensembles play for worship services; advanced ensembles also play for occasional off-campus events.

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WALTHER LEAGUE offers students in Grades 6-8 opportunities for fun and fellowship, sponsoring trips, holiday parties and other social gatherings and events.

The Service Club is composed of 7th and 8th grade students who assist with service projects before and/or after school and on weekends.